Required use of @csueastbay.edu Email for University Business

Date: June 24, 2024

To our campus community, we are writing to remind you that, per CSUEB policy, all email communications regarding university business, including those of faculty, staff, and student employees, must be performed exclusively through the use of an @csueastbay.edu email address. 

Use of a personal email address, including automatic forwarding CSUEB business-related emails to personal email addresses, exposes you, campus community members and the University to significant information security and privacy risk. While personal email accounts can be secure, they do not have the same protections and contractual agreements that we have in place with Google.

What you can do now

  1. Use your University email for all university business — for both sending and receiving. 
  2. Avoid forwarding email containing university business to a non-University (personal) account.
  3. Use your University email for communication in all business systems, including those that do not require CSUEB NetID authentication.
  4. List your CSUEB email in the , , in your syllabus, etc.

Security and privacy: Our collective responsibility

Protecting the institution, and the individuals within it, is our collective responsibility. Learn more about the policy requirements associated with the use of a CSU East Bay email address.

Automatic forwarding of individual accounts will be disabled by ITS on August 31, 2024. For more information and options, please see this FAQ page.

If you have questions and/or input about this message, please 

Sincerely,

Jake Hornsby, CIO & AVP of Information Technology Services 

Thomas Dixon, CISO, DPO & Director of Security and Infrastructure

This message was sent campus-wide to all staff, faculty, student employees and affiliated personnel.